What if I, as someone employing you, don't specifically need someone to look at the code?

We may not be quite there yet, but what if automations using LLMs can do it faster than software engineers who look at the code can, and to an acceptable standard?

> all while the same people acting like they’re productive.

Are they delivering features, capabilities, updates, refactors etc? Faster than those who are "looking at the code" ?

Don't get me wrong, I've spent 25 years reading and writing code, I'm pretty sure I'm quite good at it, though I wouldn't claim to be any sort of superstar. My job has changed immeasurably in the last year, and I'm starting to wonder if "reading the code" won't go the same way as "verifying the assembly that the C compiler spits out to make sure it's correct"